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Introducing terrio: geospatial data I/O in pure Rust!
terrio reads, writes, converts and reprojects geospatial rasters, vector data and point clouds, with no C dependencies. No GDAL or PROJ to install, nothing to compile: it builds anywhere Rust does, including WebAssembly, so the same engine runs on the command line, in Python, and in your web browser.
What it does
- Rasters: GeoTIFF and COG, Zarr and GeoZarr, netCDF, HDF5, PMTiles, MBTiles and more, read in place from the cloud, so only the bytes needed are fetched.
- Vectors: GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, OpenStreetMap PBF and vector tiles, with filters, field selection and reprojection.
- Point clouds: LAS, LAZ, COPC, EPT, PLY and E57, with PDAL-style filters (ground classification, noise, heights above ground) and gridding into DSMs and DTMs. Files larger than memory are converted in chunks.
- GDAL-style processing: translate, warp, mosaic, rasterize, polygonize, terrain analysis, raster calculator, proximity and sieve.
- Remote data: http(s), S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, zip archives and STAC searches as inputs.
- Accurate: coordinate transformations agree with GDAL's within a centimetre for all 6,354 EPSG CRSs GDAL transforms, and outputs are tested against GDAL on real-world data.
- Fast: in our benchmarks, warping, mosaicking and writing COGs run several times faster than the GDAL utilities.
- For AI agents: terrio mcp is an MCP server, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code can run terrio's commands on your data.
Get it
- Command line (Linux, macOS): curl -LsSf terrio.opengeos.org/install.… | sh
- Python: pip install terrio (with rasterio- and xarray-style APIs)
- JavaScript/WebAssembly: npm install terrio-js
- Rust: cargo add terrio
Try it out
- Playground in your browser: terrio.opengeos.org/playgrou…
- Documentation: terrio.opengeos.org
- GitHub: github.com/opengeos/terrio
#GIS #Rust #OpenSource #Geospatial #Python #LiDAR #CloudNative
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The video above was the Pūrvapakṣa - the questions.
Here is the Siddhānta - my answers.
Does the world change? Absolutely.
Do we adapt? 100%.
And ultimately, intelligence is not what makes us human.
Our ability to care for others and solve for others does.
Prathosh.
Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.
He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?
A must watch video for everyone in tech
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This summer, I taught an introductory class at King's College London on Generative models, and some links with mathematical transport theory.
The notes originated from my old blog posts; I decided to entirely rework them.
They now have their own website, simoncoste.gitlab.io/transpo…
🐞 smol thread below 🐞
/goal:
Achieve holistic development.
Make no mistakes
Build highly personalized assement and lessons for skill development.
Also, AI buddies for social games like Dungeons and Dragons?
Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇
Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE).
What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it.
Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it.
We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source.
It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute.
We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty.
Links below 👇
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Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.
My prompts fade, a LLM respond.
Magical!
Neurosymbolic RL and Agent Regret ✅ ?
Note that because of how the attention mechanism works, the tokens are really just a thin layer on top of a long series of embedding vectors composed from previous vectors, none of which are visible from the transcript.
This suggests that Fable 5's thoughts lean more on composing semantic structures with attention rather than representing it as text.
check out my /ultragoal skill
github.com/jxnl/dots/blob/ma…
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I shrunk myself down to action figure size and can now interact with and explore the tiny world on my living room coffee table.
Wait until 7 seconds in 👀🛋️
Joining the hype train and bragging about my new setup.
Hermes + KarpathyLLM + Mem0
Discord, Notion
Geospatial skills(borrowed), Statistical analysis, Complex Survey designs, some Econometric modeling (needs more work)
Intending to tokenmax before my limit reset 6:55pm today.
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Yesterday at @BrownUniversity @ICERM's workshop on “Agentic Scientific Computing and Scientific Machine Learning” I spoke about “Adaptive Swarms Across Scales”, making the case for scientific AI as systems that can create representations, stress them, fracture them, and enlarge the category in which future representations live. The category here is a composable and breakable working universe of science: data, hypotheses, simulations, measurements, tools, failures, figures, papers, provenance, and the transformations that connect them. Discovery happens when those transformations become executable, inspectable, composable, and capable of changing the world model they operate within.
Atomistic modeling gives one category - states, forces, trajectories, observables, boundary conditions, conservation laws. Neural surrogates learn fast morphisms inside or between such categories. But discovery is higher-order: it changes which objects and morphisms are available in the first place: what variables exist, what operations are allowed, what evidence counts, what scale is active, what invariant is being preserved, and what kind of explanation the system is even capable of forming.
This is scientific method as adaptive architecture: compression, stress, fracture, recomposition. Fracture matters here because it makes the logic physical: a non-commuting diagram realized in matter. The imposed load, material hierarchy, defect field, and assumed continuum description no longer map cleanly into the observed outcome. The crack is the obstruction and it identifies where the old morphism failed and where a new representation must be introduced. The physical crack and the categorical obstruction are the same event viewed in different substrates.
ScienceClaw × Infinite is a machine for constructing and transforming a category of scientific artifacts. Each artifact is typed. Each operation has lineage. Each failed branch remains in the category as reusable structure. The “paper” is no longer the terminal object of science; it is one projection of a larger compositional trace, and it can be generated at any time for consumption by a human or an AI.
With that the unit of scientific labor is changing. For most of the twentieth century the unit was the result (a measurement, a theorem, a synthesized molecule). It is now becoming the algorithm that produces results, and after that, the substrate of discovery itself. The static PDF is the wrong terminal object for this regime, and the role of the scientist with it. We now design algorithms that build algorithms, and eventually substrates in which such algorithms compose themselves. At that point, the scientist is no longer outside the discovery system. The scientist becomes one of the representations the system can transform. In that sense, the systems will eventually do science to us, and that is the structural consequence of the principle they are built on.
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Wall hacks in real life using augmented reality.
New mad science experiment -- I used $300 Meta RayBan glasses and an iPhone to recreate EagleEye's "see-through-walls" tracking.
The answer was visual positioning tech to build a shared spatial map. Code on GitHub.
0:00 - The Experiment
0:38 - Dumb Glasses, Smart Tracking
1:54 - No Street View? No Problem
3:17 - Seeing Through Walls With a Phone
4:24 - The Indoor Problem Nobody Solved
5:20 - This Is What It Can Do
6:38 - Use Cases Beyond the Flex
7:44 - The Double Edge
10:32 - Conclusion
Useful tool to build and track fleets ?
Self-hosted, privacy-focused GPS timeline alternative
github.com/tess1o/geopulse
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1/🧵 What if test-time reasoning wasn't discrete search, but gradient descent in latent space?
Happy to share our #ICLR2026 paper ∇-Reasoner: a paradigm shift from zeroth-order search to first-order optim at test time. Led by @peihao_wang @ccccrs_0908
iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/…
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New @ThePeelPod with University of Michigan professor Karthik Duraisamy
Karthik co-leads U of M's newly created Institute of Agentic Computing. It's a central node for the OpenClaw platform and helps researchers and developers using AI to advance scientific discovery and engineering.
This is Karthik's first public conversation going deep on the new institute.
We talk about how AI has increased the pace of scientific research, two new discoveries announced yesterday at ClawCon in Ann Arbor, how universities actually work, how AI has impacted students and education, what's happening with college grade inflation, and the code red advice he gave students.
Thank you to @Numeral, @FlexSuperApp, and @Amplitude_HQ for supporting this episode!
Timestamps:
0:25 The Institute for Agentic Computing
4:27 OpenClaw Foundation and Lobster Compute Company
8:19 How Universities actually work
12:33 ClawCon in Ann Arbor
15:24 Two scientific discoveries made with ScienceClaw
20:06 How AI is speeding up scientific discovery
25:42 Supporting AI and OpenClaw development
29:55 Why universities function like VC funds
34:29 How universities get money from the government
40:55 Why some academics believe AI is a fad
46:17 Biggest bottlenecks in AI today
49:26 How AI will change the world
53:10 Karthik's Code Red advice for students
59:19 Separating learning and doing
1:03:10 Ways COVID and AI impacted college students
1:14:53 How the role of universities is changing
1:23:21 Why college classes suffered from grade inflation
1:26:05 How AI is actually impacting the job market
1:32:49 Karthik’s advice for students
1:39:16 Winning two NCAA basketball national championships
1:43:04 Almost dying in the Grand Teton National Park




























